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Love is always in the mood of believing in miracles.
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To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the…
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Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else,…
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Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous…
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If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the…
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Ambition is the grand enemy of all peace.
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Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly…
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The love that interferes and knows not how to leave alone is a love alien to Nature's ways.
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What is the importance of human lives? Is it their continuing alive for so many years like animals in a menagerie? The…
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To a real child anything will serve as a toy.
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A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.
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Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.
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When computers (people) are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, but they…
— Scott McNealy
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The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream…
— Harriet Quimby
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There are airmen and there are pilots: the first being part bird whose view from aloft is normal and comfortable, a creature…
— Ernest K. Gann
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The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed…
— David Lloyd George
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Of course, I would like to know what [Sony and Microsoft] do with their machines, but there is no game that I…
— Shigeru Miyamoto
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Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous…
— John Cowper Powys
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Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those…
— Laurie R. King
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I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well…
— Rose Schneiderman
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